16th January - Today's News: Snow & Storms Continue to Cause Problems

Not yet a big national news story, because there hasn't been a dusting of snow to cause chaos in London yet, but across the north of Britain major disruption: high winds cause power cuts in southwest Scotland as high winds bring hail, heavy snow and more than 200 flood alerts and drivers trapped on A9 by heavy snow, ice and flooding, while NI weather causes further travel disruption.   More snow likely over the next week as winter finally sets in across the country.

And Cornwall 'tornado' throws wreckage 300ft

It's now confirmed that last year warmest in history of Czech measuring of temperature - another country to add to the list

Mozambique and Malawi floods cause havoc

The heartbreaking scene of 100 dead cows floating in a lake, after the herd wandered onto the frozen reservoir, broke through the ice and drowned

California would need a ridiculous amount of rain to end its drought (or, more correctly, its water shortage - obviously by definition, any signifcant rain will end a drought!)

Chinese official blames New Year meat cooking for industrial-strength smog in Dazhou

In NZ, young weather-watchers use social media to nip at MetService's heels

And researchers discover how the small of rain happens

Rate of sea-level rise 'steeper' over the past two decades than previously thought

Lost Beagle 2 probe found 'intact' on Mars - see silly, it wasn't shot down Martians after all!